Dalai Lama to visit Poland: Expected to give ethics speech at Warsaw University

German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is coming to Poland for two-day visit German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is coming to Poland for a two-day visit. Poland's future membership in the European Union (EU) is expected to dominate the talks. Though German officials still emphasize a political will for EU expansion, they are becoming more critical of aspirant countries' slow pace in enacting legislative and economic changes. Also, German politicians cannot ignore the fact that support for EU expansion among its own citizens is getting weaker. During talks in the historical town of Gniezno, politicians from both countries will speak about how to win public support. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 8) A.D. The spiritual and political leader of Tibet and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dalai Lama Tenzin Giaco, will come to Poland in May. Born in 1935, the Dalai Lama took over political control of Tibet after the occupation of its eastern parts by China in November 1950. He was forced to immigrate to India after Tibet's uprising against the Chinese regime failed and the whole country came under Chinese control in 1959. The Dalai Lama now lives in Dharamsala, India. Since 1967 he has visited 46 countries and was in Poland for the first tim in 1993. The Dalai Lama is expected to give a lecture at Warsaw University about "Ethics for the new millennium" and has been invited to the Sejm. (Zycie, page 2; Gazeta Wyborcza, page 5) A.D.